Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam
Angaben zur Quelle:
36 (2009) 439-470
Keywords:
Abd al-Salām al-Muhtadī al-Muhammadī
;
Islam Relations 1500-
;
Judaism
;
Jews History
;
Muslim converts from Judaism
Abstract:
Manuscript collections around the world hold a number of epistles written against Judaism by Ottoman Muslim authors writing between the late fifteenth and the late sixteenth centuries CE. Apart from the apparently widely read tract against Judaism by the prolific Ottoman scholar Aḥmad b. Muṣṭafā Ṭāškubrīzāde (d. 968/1561),¹ two additional texts in Arabic have so far been encountered by the present writer, both of them written by Jewish converts to Islam. The shorter of these, entitled Risālat Ilzām al-Yahūd fīmā zaʿamū fī l-Tawrāt min qibal ʿilm al-kalām, was written by one al-Salām ʿAbd al-ʿAllām and is extant in a single,...
Note:
Based on MS Leiden Or. 17.054, ff. 125b-127b; MS Manisa 8061/1, ff. 1b-16b; MS Laleli 3706/36 ff. 385a-393a; MS. Esad Efendi 6/5, ff. 1a-71; MS Princeton Garrett 974H/3, ff. 68b-78a (pp. 446-470).
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Appeared also in "Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible; Texts and Studies" (2019) 327-354.
DOI:
10.2307/j.ctvd1c9ww.21
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